Marvel’s Planet of the Apes Magazine featured different environments, different artists, and different relationships between men and apes, but only one writer - Doug Moench. Moench recalled: "Everything had to be sent to APJAC Productions and I know there were some issues with the art. It was always things like, 'The character can’t look like Charlton Heston.' In the original stories I did with Mike Ploog and Tom Sutton there were never any complaints that I know of."[1] The magazine featured some superb painted cover artwork by the likes of Bob Larkin, Earl Norem, Ken Barr and Malcolm McNeill, while the comic strips proved so successful that they would be reprinted in numerous publications around the world, as well as a colorized reprint of the first two movie adaptations for the US market in Marvel's Adventures on the Planet of the Apes comic.

While the magazine completed it's run of movie adaptations, an increase in licensing fees prompted it's sudden cancellation in February 1977, with many stories unresolved. Doug Moench later revealed details of how some of these stories would have evolved, as detailed in 'Timeline of the Planet of the Apes: The Definitive Chronology' by Rich Handley, along with a partially-completed but unpublished story - Forbidden Zone Prime. The Marvel adaptations of the first three movies and Terror on the Planet of the Apes were revived by Malibu Graphics and re-issued in 'graphic novel' book form in 1990/1991.